Dr Bernadette Tobin was interviewed recently on Australia's Radio National about euthanasia. Tobin's interview followed upon interviews of two pro-euthanasia advocates (mentioned occasionally throughout this broadcast).

The Age Newspaper is reporting that Dr Nitschke claims he has 48 hours to mount a defence against the medical board of Australia, AHPRA, whom the report says, wants Nitschke deregistered as a medical practitioner.

In my last post we looked at the confusion that is unnecessarily clouding the debate over the Tasmanian euthanasia bill. Nick McKim MP failed to note the necessary distinctions between an action with the direct intention to kill and an action with the intention to relieve pain and suffering.

Abuse of elders cannot be separated from disability abuse simply because the frail aged have acquired age-related disabilities just as those with a degenerative illness accumulate disabilities as their illness progresses.

Last evening (24th November) the South Australian Parliament’s upper house debated the latest euthanasia bill from Greens MLC, Mark Parnell.

At the State Election in March of this year changes in personnel in the upper house appeared to have turned that chamber decidedly pro-euthanasia. However, last night common sense prevailed yet again as the bill was defeated at the second reading ‘on the voices’.

In March, at the time of the euthanasia & assisted suicide discussion paper in Tasmania, The President of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Medical Association condemned the move in the Australian Media.